Charles A.A. Dellschau, 1830–1923

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Hello dear friend of the air, why do you gaze at the skies? Is it perhaps that you want to fly, to sail, to flap on an aspirational Archimedean abstraction, a profound nonsense of watercolour stripes and industrial press cuttings? If so, then you have come to the right place. You are not alone, far from it, for on these very pages shall you experience the complex contraptions of Mr. Charles August Albert Dellschau, C.A.A.D. as he signed himself, a lowly Prussian by birth, an everyday butcher by profession, an immigrant into the Americas whose lifetime imaginary hobby found form in a dozen books of impossible flying machines. 7 Introduction James Brett 8 Dedication and Acknowledgments Stephen Romano 11 1. Charles A.A. Dellschau’s Aporetic Archive Thomas McEvilley 29 2.To Cross the Plains:The Art and Life of Charles A.A. Dellschau Tracy Baker-White 47 3.The Art of Interpolation: Charles A.A. Dellschau’s Inscriptions and Airo Cutts Roger Cardinal 61 4. Charles A.A. Dellschau and the Dream of Flight Tom D. Crouch 73 5.The Art of Charles A.A. Dellschau:Tell the Modern Experience from Exile Barbara Safarova 81 6. Charles A.A. Dellschau: Enigma in Plain Sight Randall Morris 87 Selected Works 332 Contributors 334 Photography Credits